Steve M. Swerdlow

Associate

San Francisco

Practice Areas Include: Consumer Protection, International and Human Rights, Personal Injury/Mass Torts, Product Liability

Bar Information

Admitted to practice in California, 2007; U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern and Northern Districts of California, 2007; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (2010).

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D. 2006); Senior Notes & Comments Editor, California Law Review; Boalt Hall Public Interest Fellowship (2004); Chairman, Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights (BHCHR); Asylum Advocate, California Asylum Representation Clinic; Boalt Hall Death Penalty Clinic; Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (M.A., Human Rights and International Affairs, 2003); Harriman Institute Certificate in Post-Soviet Studies (2003); University of California, Berkeley (B.A. phi beta kappa 1999).

Prior Employment

Law Clerk to the Hon. Dean D. Pregerson, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (2006-2007); Consultant and Special Advisor on Refugee Programs, International Organization of Migration (IOM) (Russia, 2004 and 2006); Researcher, European Centre for Minority Issues (Georgia, 2005); Law Clerk, American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (2004); Human Rights Monitor, Union of Councils for Jews in the former Soviet Union (Russia, 2000-2001).

Awards & Honors

U.S. Department of State Young Leaders Fellowship for Public Service, Krasnodar, Russian Federation (2000-2001); U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Area Studies Award (2002-2003 & 2004-2005); Harvard Tuition Scholarship, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Publications

"The Third Migration: Meskhetian Turks' Resettlement and Integration in the United States," Integration, Repatriation or Resettlement?, Berlin: LIT Verlag (2007); "Understanding Post-Soviet Ethnic Discrimination and the Effective Use of U.S. Refugee Resettlement: The Case of the Meskhetian Turks of Krasnodar Krai," 94 Cal. L. Rev. 1827 (2006); National Public Radio's "The World" on "Ethnic Discrimination in Russia" (Guest, Oct. 2007); The Meskhetian Turks: An Introduction to their History, Culture and Resettlement Experiences, Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics (2006); Voice of America Radio Interview, "Xenophobia in the Caucasus" (Guest, March 2005); "Stalin's Deported Peoples: Human Rights of Transnational Minorities," in Bulletin, Moscow (2004); Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, "Russia's Expulsion of Ethnic Minorities" (Panelist, 2002); "The Forgotten Jews of Nagorno-Karabakh," Institute of War and Peace Reporting (2001).

Languages

Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian.

Member

American Bar Association, Sections of International and Refugee Law, Sub-Committee of International Human Rights and Refugee Law; Bar Association of San Francisco.